The Darkness

English retro-hair metal outfit the Darkness were a lot more inventive than the press gave them credit for. While they could kick out the party metal like nobody's business, they had an art pop sensibility that would reach up from time to time and slick back that teased hair, especially on their criminally underrated sophomore album, One Way Ticket to Hell...And Back. Rhino's Platinum Collection collects 21 of the best tracks from the band (they only had two albums), including "I Believe in a Thing Called Love," "Get Your Hands Off My Woman," "Knockers," "Hazel Eyes," "English Country Garden," and the hit U.K. Christmas single "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)." ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide